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Perfect Vaccination 6 marker
- Vaccines are dead/inactive forms of the pathogen which are injected into the body to stimulate an immune response
- Lymphocytes produce specific antibodies to bind to the antigens on the pathogen to flag them up for phagocytosis
- Phagocytes engulf and destroy the pathogen
- Body turns some lymphocytes into memory cells that remain in the blood long-term.
- Upon re-infection, memory cells recognize it immediately and produce a larger, more rapid production of specific antibodies
- The pathogen is destroyed by white blood cells before it can cause disease symptoms.
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🧠Exam-style questions
- Why should a large percentage of the population be vaccinated?
- Explain how the immune systems of farm animals respond to a vaccination and how that prevents an outbreak of food poisoning in humans (4)